Category: Arts & Culture

As it is, the 23-year-old Ryerson near-grad is visible for about five seconds, and the film, set in an Ivy League college where a secret society’s moral wrong-doings are uncovered by young hero Joshua Jackson, sucks.

It’s a fitting job for Spear, a sports fanatic himself. He sits on the edge of his seat as he notices the Bonnies take the lead. But the Wildcats come back to tie and take the game into overtime. St. Bonaventure has five more minutes to pull off the upset.

Jeff Henderson looks around a room on the third floor of the Ryerson theatre school. The second-year theatre student’s eyes show signs of fatigue—he’s spent the past three weeks in rehearsal for his role of Azdak the judge in The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Henderson fixes his gaze on director John Van Burek, who is explaining the meaning of the play the second-year theatre students will perform.

If third-year architecture students had their way, the latest hot spot for so hip-they-hurt Ryerson students wouldn’t be another boring engineering building. It would be a Cuban-Latino Jazz club called Mazucamba in Toronto’s haughty Yorkville district.

To mark RIOT’s 50th anniversary, the cast and crew of RIOT 2000 held a preview show Monday night that gave alumni a trip down memory lane. The free show featured a nine-member cast in skits ranging from the adventures of two cats and catnip to a discussion about tube meat and vaginal secretion. Laced with video footage, lights and music, the show was eye candy for the audience.

Faubert’s one-man business, which he formed seven months ago, has found success by filling a niche in the photo industry. Faubert uses his own materials and the equipment in the labs of the image arts building. Unlike most studio photographers, he only offers one product—black and white headshots.

A sheep is sold, transported and slaughtered. As the camera steadies on the blood dripping from its white fleshy neck, most people in the audience cringe. A few stare resolutely at the screen. 

"[This year's designers] are trying to move men away from the pre-existing thought-patterns concerning fashion," says Janelle Cagodan, one of the designers featured the show. She says guys need to be more conservative" Kelly says. "If a man wear something that's too flamboyant,he tends to be teased about it." 

Ades runs UPward Motion, a consulting and training company that focuses on youth and uses theatre to recreate conflicts in the workplace. She took her presentation to Ryerson last week, leading workshops at the school of retail management.

Ryerson dance students have been busy preparing 26 pieces for the theatre school’s production called Choreographic Works 2000.